Manuscripts
Correspondence and documents relating to war (cotton) claims by the general public
- Description
- A collection of 2,700 items from 1830 to 1972; it contains professional papers and personal, professional, and family correspondence of Sargeant Prentiss Knut. Included is material related to the Civil War claims regarding family property and other litigation, including the settlement of Lily Barret Knut's estate. The collection also contains material from Knut's professional and political career. Also included is correspondence of the Barret and Knut families, biographical information, notebooks, typewritten copies of the diaries of Dr. Rush Nutt (1805) and Rittenhouse Nutt (1834), newspaper clippings and ephemera.
- Date
- 1880-1938
- Call number
- mssKnut
- Provenance
- Gift of Miss Carolyn Pollard and Ward Pollard, June 1977.
